Since summer 2007 the Subprime credit crisis has been affecting the international financial markets. One of the consequences of the crisis was the collapse of the market for large-sized leveraged buyout transactions in late 2007 and early 2008. The goal of this Working Paper is to examine to...

Die Verbriefung, also die Finanzierung von Krediten über den Kapitalmarkt, hat in den letzten Jahren deutlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Subprime-Krise zeigt jedoch deren Mängel auf. Da die Immobilienfinanzierer das Risiko aus der Kreditvergabe an den Kapitalmarkt weitergeben konnten, wurden...

This paper provides an overview of the antecedents, main drivers and spillover mechanisms of the turbulence emanating from the US sub-prime credit market in the summer of 2007. Its primary goal is to discuss the facts and interrelationships featured in the various analyses and statistics in a...